A third graduate student team from the University of Arkansas has taken the top prize in a 2012 business plan contest that carries an automatic berth for the Venture Labs Investment Competition.
FORT SMITH — For the Fort Smith metro economy, Friday was good in that O.K. Industries announced it will add or return 182 jobs to its facilities in Fort Smith and Heavener, Okla.
The nations two largest beef packers, Tyson Foods and Cargill Meat Solutions confirmed with The City Wire, they have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve new labels for ground beef products containing lean fined textured beef trimmings also known as (LFTB).
On Thursday (April 5), Walmart revealed a “Women in Factories” program, a five-year initiative that it says will “empower 60,000 women working in factories that supply products to Walmart and other retailers in India, Bangladesh, China and Central America.”
BENTONVILLE - Walmart and the Walmart Foundation announced $958.9 million in cash and in-kind contributions around the globe during the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2012. The company’s U.S.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services placed its 'BBB-' corporate credit rating and other ratings on Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co. Inc. on CreditWatch with negative implications. This rating is one notch above the "junk" or speculative realm.
Regions Financial Corp. announced today that it has completed its repurchase of $3.5 billion of Series A Preferred Stock issued under the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program’s Capital Purchase Program.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd president of the United States, will visit the University of Arkansas as the inaugural speaker of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture Program.
The American Meat Institute recently acknowledged more than 100 meat and poultry plants for outstanding worker safety records in 2011. A few Arkansas plants made the grade.
Warmer than usual weather and adequate rain fall has helped Arkansas farmers get a jump on spring planting. They had on average had 6.1 days suitable for fieldwork last week and reported roughly 90% of their field’s topsoil moisture measured adequate or better.
Talk Business has reported periodically on the phenomenon known as “mass layoffs,” those major workforce reductions that often garner headlines when they hit communities in Arkansas.
The 2008-09 recession brought a major uptick in those mass layoff events, but 2010 was a calmer year.
SILOAM SPRINGS — The John Brown University board of trustees unveiled two new building projects for the coming year for its students and surrounding community.
Commodity traders and large buyers like Tyson Foods Inc. anxiously awaited the annual pre-planting report released Friday (Mar. 30) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
